Ruby – Mac OS X Lion Xcode problems using RVM

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I had Xcode 4.1 preview 5 working fine but decided to upgrade to the final xcode 4.1 thru the App store. I uninstalled Xcode first…

sudo /Developer/Library/uninstall-devtools –mode=all

Then installed Xcode thru the app store and rebooted.

I also removed RVM completely but… now whenever I try and install a version of Ruby it fails. In the error file i get this:

[2011-07-27 18:29:25]  ./configure --prefix="/Users/holden/.rvm/usr"  
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... config/install-sh -c -d
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... no
checking for awk... awk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no
checking for gcc... /usr/bin/gcc-4.2
checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in `/Users/holden/.rvm/src/yaml-0.1.4':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details

There is no gcc-4.2 or any other gcc in the /usr/bin directory.

What's up with Xcode?

Best Answer

Apparently even after downloading and "installing" XCode from the Appstore and despite the long process after downloading where it appears to install it and the words "Installed" eventually become displayed next to it in the store. You must still manually install it again within your applications folder before it will work.

Odd.

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